Avery  Architectural  and  Fine  Arts  Library 
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MAP 


OF  THE 


CITY  OF  NEW-YORK 


AND 


ISLAND  OF  MANHATTAN; 


WITH 


EXPLANATORY  REMARKS 


AND 


I  /  BY  WILLIAM  BRIDGES, 

jf  Architect  and  City  Surveyor. 

/sir   


NEW-YORK: 

PRINTED  FOR  THE  AUTHOR, 
By  T.  k  J.  Swords,  No.  160  Peurl-Stree* 


1811. 


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District  of  New-York,  ss. 

Be  IT  REMEMBERED,  that  on  the  sixteenth  day 
of  November,  in  the  thirty-sixth  year  of  the  Inde- 
pendence of  the  United  Stales  of  America,  William 
(L.S.)  Bridges,  of  the  said  District,  hath  deposited  in  this 

office  the  tide  ©fa  Book,  the  right  whereof  he  claims 
as  Author  and  Proprietor,  in  the  words  following,  t© 
wit: 

"Map  of  the  City  of  New-York  and  Island  of  Manhattan;  with  Ex- 
planatory Remarks  and  References.  By  William  Bridges,  Architect  and 
City  Surveyor." 

In  conformity  to  the  Act  of  the  Congress  of  the  United  States,  entitled 
"  An  Act  for  the  Encouragement  of  Learning,  by  securing  the  copies  of 
Maps,  Charts,  and  Books,  to  the  authors  and  proprietors  of  such  copies, 
during  the  time  therein  mentioned/'  And  also  to  an  Act,  entitled  "  An 
Act,  supplementary  to  an  Act,  entitled  An  Act  for  the  Encouragement  of 
Learning,  by  securing  the  copies  of  Maps,  Charts,  and  Books,  to  the 
authors  and  proprietors  of  such  copies,  during  the  times  therein  men- 
tioned, and  extending  the  benefits  thereof  to  the  arts  of  designing,  en- 
graving, and  etching  historical  and  other  prints." 

CHARLES  CLINTON, 
Clerk  of  the  District  of  New-York. 


ADVERTISEMENT 


The  Map  of  thai  part  of  the  Cit?  which  lies  south 
•f  Green wich-Lane  and  North-Street,  and  which  was 
not  included  in  the  powers  vested  in  the  Commis- 
sioners, contains  all  the  alterations  ,and  improvements 
therein,  and  the  intended  permanent  lines  on  both  ri- 
vers, together  with  BlackivclVs,  Randell's,  and  Great 
Barn  Islands,  situate  on  the  East-River,  from  act  mil 
survevs. 


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An  Act  relative  to  Improvements,  touching  the 
laying  out  of  Streets  and  Roads  in  the  City 
of  New-York,  and  Jor  other  purposes. 

^  $-^0  Passed  April  3,  1807. 

I.  Be  it  enacted  by  the  People  of  the  State  of 
New-York,  represented  in  Senate  and  Assembly, 
That  Governeur  Morris,  Simeon  De 
Witt,  and  John  Rutherford,  be,  and 
they  are  hereby  appointed  Commissioners 
of  streets  and  roads  in  the  City  of  New- York, 
for  the  purpose  of  performing  the  several 
acts  and  duties  hereinafter  prescribed. 

II.  And  be  it  further  enacted,  That  in  case 
of  the  death,  resignation,  or  refusal  to  act  of 
any  of  the  said  Commissioners,  it  shall  and 
may  be  lawful  for  the  Mayor,  Aldermen, 
and  Commonalty  of  the  City  of  New- York, 
in  Common  Council  convened,  as  often  as 
such  event  shall  happen,  to  appoint  and  com- 
mission a  suitable  person  in  the  place  of  such 
Commissioner  so  dying,  resigning,  or  re- 
fusing to  act,  who  shall  have  all  the  power 
and  authority  vested  in  a  Commissioner  by 


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this  act:  Provided,  That  such  person,  so  to  be 
appointed  by  the  Common  Council,  shall  be 
a  citizen  of  the  United  States,  and  shall  not 
be  a  proprietor  of,  nor  interested  in  any  land 
in  either  of  the  sixth,  seventh,  eighth,  or 
ninth  wards  of  the  said  City  of  New- York. 

III.  And  be  it  further  enacted.  That  the 
powers  and  duties  hereby  given  to  the  said 
Commissioners,  shall  be  exercised  and  dis- 
charged by  the  said  Commissioners  within 
four  years  from  the  passing  of  this  act,  and 
not  after. 

IV.  And  be  it  further  enacted,  That  it  shall 
and  may  be  lawful  to  and  for  the  said  Com- 
missioners, or  any  two  of  them,  and  they 
shall  have  and  possess  exclusive  power  to  lay 
out  streets,  roads,  and  public  squares,  of  such 
width,  extent,  and  direction,  as  to  them 
shall  seem  most  conducive  to  public  good, 
and  to  shut  up,  or  direct  to  be  shut  up,  any 
streets  or  parts  thereof  which  have  been 
heretofore  laid  out,  and  not  accepted  by  the 
Common  Council  of  the  said  City,  within 
that  part  of  the  said  City  of  New- York  to 
the  northward  of  a  line  commencing  at  the 


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wharf  of  George  Clinton,  on  Hudson  River, 
thence  running  through  Fitzroy-road,  Green- 
wich-lane and  Art-street,  to  the  Bowery-road ; 
thence  down  the  Bowery-road,  to  North- 
street;  thence  through  North-street,  in  its 
present  direction,  to  the  East  River:  and  no 
square  or  plot  of  ground,  made  by  the  in- 
tersection of  any  streets,  to  be  laid  out  by 
the  said  Commissioners,  shall  ever,  after  the 
streets  around  the  same  shall  be  opened,  be 
or  remain  divided  by  any  public  or  open 
lane,  alley,  street  or  thoroughfare.  And  it 
shall  be  the  duty  of  the  said  Commissioners 
to  lay  out  the  leading  streets  and  great  ave- 
nues, by  them  to  be  laid  out,  of  a  width 
not  less  than  sixty  feet,  and  in  general  to  lay 
out  said  streets,  roads,  and  public  squares, 
of  such  ample  width  as  they  may  deem  suf- 
ficient to  secure  a  free  and  abundant  circu- 
lation of  air  among  said  streets  and  public 
squares  when  the  same  shall  be  built  upon; 
and  said  Commissioners  shall  not,  in  any 
case,  lay  out  any  street  of  less  than  fifty  feet 
in  width. 

V.  And  be  it  further  enaeted,  That  it  shall 
and  may  be  lawful  to  and  for  the  said  Com- 


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missioners,  and  for  all  persons  acting  under 
their  authority,  to  enter,  in  the  day  time, 
into  and  upon  any  lands,  tenements  or  here- 
ditaments which  they  shall  deem  necessary 
to  be  surveyed,  used  or  converted  for  the 
laying  out,  opening,  and  forming  of  any 
street  or  road  as  aforesaid ;  and  that  the  said 
Commissioners,  or  any  two  of  them,  shall 
cause  three  similar  maps  of  such  streets  and 
roads,  so  to  be  laid  out  by  them  as  aforesaid, 
and  of  the  shores  bounding  the  lands  by  them 
surveyed,  to  be  made  upon  an  extensive 
scale,  accompanied  with  such  field  notes 
and  elucidatory  remarks  as  the  nature  of  the 
subject  may  require;  which  maps,  accom- 
panied by  such  field  notes  and  remarks, 
shall  be  attested  to  by  the  said  Commission- 
ers, or  any  two  of  them,  before  any  person 
authorized   to   take   acknowledgments  of 
deeds  and  conveyances,  and  be  filed,  one  in 
the  office  of  the  Secretary  of  State,  to  re- 
main of  record;  one  other  to  be  filed  in  the 
office  of  the  Clerk  of  the  City  and  County 
of  New-York,  to  remain  of  record;  and 
the  other  of  said  maps  to  belong  to  the 
Mayor,  Aldermen  and  Commonalty  of  the 
City  of  New- York;  and  that  the  said  Com- 


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missioncrs  shall  erect  suitable  and  durable 
monuments  at  the  most  conspicuous  angles, 
or  those  which  shall  be  the  most  eligible  for 
that  purpose,  and  upon  the  shores  or*  the 
North  and  East  Rivers,  to  be  noted  on  said 
maps;  and  that  the  said  Commissioners  shall 
take  the  elevations  of  the  several  intersec- 
tions or  squares  above  high-water  murk, 
within  the  boundaries  aforesaid,  or  so  many 
of  them  as  they  may  think  sufficient,  and 
shall  delineate  them,  together  with  all  such 
hills,  valleys,  inlets  and  streams  as  may  be 
necessary  on  the  said  maps,  so  as  to  render 
the  same  explicit  and  intelligible. 

VI.  And  be  it  further  enacted,  That  it  shall 
not  be  lawful  for  either  of  the  said  Commis- 
sioners, during  the  time  he  shall  be  in  office, 
directly  or  indirectly,  to  purchase  or  con- 
tract for  any  lands,  tenements  or  heredita- 
ments in  that  part  of  the  City  of  New- York 
to  be  laid  out  and  regulated  as  aforesaid;  and 
that  every  deed,  contract  or  conveyance  con- 
trary to  the  intent  hereof  shall  be  utterly 
void. 


VII.  And  be  it  further  enacted,  That  be- 


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fore  the  said  Commissioners  enter  upon  the 
duties  of  their  appointment,  they  shall  se- 
verally take  and  subscribe  an  oath  before  the 
Mayor  or  Recorder  of  the  City  of  New- 
York,  faithfully  and  impartially  to  execute 
the  duties  of  their  said  appointment. 

VIII.  And  be  it  further  enacted.  That  the 
plans  and  surveys  of  the  said  Commissioners, 
or  any  two  of  them,  in  respect  to  the  laying 
out  of  streets  and  roads  within  the  bounda- 
ries aforesaid,  and  the  maps  of  the  same,  so 
to  be  made  by  them,  or  any  two  of  them, 
as  aforesaid,  shall  be  final  and  conclusive, 
as  well  in  respect  to  the  said  Mayor,  Alder- 
men, and  Commonalty,  as  in  respect  to  the 
owners  and  occupants  of  lands,  tenements, 
and  hereditaments  within  the  boundaries 
aforesaid,  and  in  respect  to  all  other  persons 
whomsoever. 

IX.  And  be  it  further  enacted,  That  when- 
ever the  said  Mayor,  Aldermen  and  Com- 
monalty of  the  City  of  New- York,  shall  be 
desirous,  or  require,  as  hereafter  mentioned, 
to  open  any  streets,  roads  or  public  squares, 
so  to  be  laid  out  as  aforesaid,  it  shall  be  law- 


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fill  for  the  said  Mayor,  Aldermen,  and  Com- 
monalty, to  agree  with  the  owner  or  owners 
of  such  lands,  tenements  or  hereditaments 
as  will  be  required  for  that  purpose,  for  and 
about  a  reasonable  compensation  to  be  made 
to  him,  her,  or  them,  for  such  lands,  tene- 
ments, or  hereditaments;  and  in  case  of  dis- 
agreement, or  in  case  such  owner  or  ©triers 
shall  be  feme  covert,  under  age,  non  com- 
pos mentis,  or  out  of  the  City  of  New-York, 
that  then  it  shall  be  lawful  for  the  Justices  ef 
the  Supreme  Court  of  this  State,  or  any  one 
of  them,  upon  the  application  of  either  party, 
to  nominate  and  appoint  three  discreet  and 
disinterested  persons,  being  citizens  of  said 
State,  Commissioners  to  view  the  said  lands, 
tenements,  and  hereditaments,  and  to  esti- 
mate the  damage  such  owner  or  owners  will 
respectively  suffer,  by  relinquishing  the  lands 
so  required  of  them  for  the  purposes  afore- 
said; and  also  in  cases  where  the  benefit  ex- 
ceeds the  value  of  the  land  required,  to  esti- 
mate the  said  benefit,  after  deducting  the 
value  of  said  land,  and  to  report  thereupon 
to  the  said  Court  without  delay;  and  upon 
the  coming  in  of  such  report,  signed  bv  the 
said  last  mentioned  persons,  or  any  two  of 


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them,  and  the  confirmation  thereof  by  the 
said  Court,  the  said  Mayor,  Aldermen,  and 
Commonalty  of  the  City  of  New- York,  shall 
proceed  to,  and  assess  the  same  upon  all  the 
property  intended  to  be  benefited  thereby, 
in  the  manner  directed  in  and  by  the  eleventh 
section  of  the  act,  entitled,  "  An  act  for  re- 
gulating the  buildings,  streets,  wharves,  and 
slips  in  the  City  of  New- York,"  passed  the 
3d  of  April,  1801;  which  assessment  shall 
be  binding  and  conclusive,  and  be  collected 
in  the  manner  therein  prescribed,  for  the 
use  of,  and  paid  to  those  persons  in  whose 
favour  the  report  for  compensation  may  be 
made  (first  deducting  the  sum  or  sums  for 
which  they  are  assessed,  for  defraying  the 
expense  of  opening  of  said  street,  with  law- 
ful interest  from  the  confirmation  of  the  same) 
in  full  compensation  for  such  lands,  tene- 
ments, and  hereditaments  aforesaid ;  and 
upon  such  assessment  being  completed,  the 
said  Mayor,  Aldermen,  and  Commonalty  of 
the  City  of  New-York,  shall  be,  and  become 
seized  in  fee,  of  all  such  lands,  tenements, 
and  hereditaments,  and  thereupon  the  said 
Mayor,  Aldermen,  and  Commonalty  of  the 
Citf  of  New- York,  or  any  person  acting 


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under  their  authority,  may  immediately  take 
possession  of  the  same,  without  any  suit  or 
proceeding  at  law  for  that  purpose,  in  trust: 
Nevertheless,  That  the  same  be  kept  open  for 
a  public  street,  road,  or  public  squares,  for 
ever;  and  whenever  so  many  proprietors  of 
lands,  fronting  on  any  street,  delineated  on 
said  map,  as  aforesaid,  as  together  own  three- 
fourth  parts  of  the  front  of  said  lands,  shall, 
by  petition,  require  or  desire  said  Mayor,  Al- 
dermen, and  Commonalty  to  open  any  such 
street,  or  any  part  thereof,  the  said  xMayor, 
Aldermen,  and  Commonalty,  shall  take  such 
measures  as  aforesaid,  for  opening  the  same: 
Provided,  That  said  Mayor,  Aldermen,  and 
Commonalty  may  permit  any  building, 
which  shall  be  in  part,  or  in  whole,  included 
within  the  limits  of  any  such  street,  to  re- 
main unremoved  for  such  time  as  they  shall 
think  proper:  Provided  also,  That  if  any 
building  shall  be  in  whole  or  in  part  erected 
within  the  limits  of  any  such  street,  road,  or 
public  square,  laid  out  as  aforesaid,  after  the 
maps  herein  mentioned  shall  be  made  and 
hied,  it  shall  be  lawful  for  the  said  Mayor, 
Aldermen,  and  Commonalty,  to  give  evi- 
dence thereof  before  the  Commissioners* 


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who  shall  assess  the  damages;  and  that  it  shall 
not  be  lawful  for  the  Commissioners  to  allow 
any  sum  or  compensation  whatsoever  for  any 
building  or  buildings  that  may  be  built, 
placed,  or  erected,  in  part  or  in  whole  on 
said  streets,  roads,  or  public  squares,  after  the 
said  maps  shall  be  made  and  filed. 

X.  And  be  it  further  enacted,  That  when- 
ever any  of  the  proprietors  of  any  such  lands, 
tenements,  hereditaments,  and  premises,  shall 
be  infants,  non  compos  mentis,  or  absent 
from  the  City  of  New- York,  the  said  Mayor, 
Aldermen,  and  Commonalty,  may  pay  the 
sums  mentioned  in  such  report,  that  would 
be  coming  to  such  proprietors  respectively, 
into  the  said  Supreme  Court,  to  be  secured, 
disposed  of,  and  improved,  as  the  said  Court 
shall  direct;  and  such  payment  shall  be 
equally  valid  and  effectual,  as  if  made  to  the 
proprietors  themselves,  if  they  had  been  pre- 
sent, of  full  age  and  compos  mentis. 

XL  And  be  it  further  enacted,  That  all  the 
monies  which  the  said  Mayor,  Aldermen,  and 
Commonalty  expend,  or  become  bound  to  ex- 
pend, in  consequence  of  the  provisions  of  this 


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act,  shall  be  estimated  and  assessed  among  all 
the  owners  or  occupants  of  all  houses  and  lot- 
of  ground  intended  to  be  benefited  thereby,  in 
the  manner  directed  in  and  by  the  eleventh 
section  of  the  act,  entitled,  "  An  act  for  regu- 
lating the  buildings,  streets,  wharves*  and  slips 
in  the  City  of  New- York,"  passed  the  3d  day  of 
April,  1801;  which  estimates  and  assess- 
ments shall  be  binding  and  conclusive,  and 
be  collected  in  the  manner  therein  pre- 
scribed; and  the  said  Mayor,  Aldermen,  and 
Commonalty,  may  direct  the  sums,  reported 
by  the  aforesaid  Commissioners  to  be  due 
from  the  owner  or  owners  of  land  benefited 
as  aforesaid,  to  be  charged  against  them  re- 
spectively in  the  said  assessment:  Provided 
however,  That  nothing  herein  contained  shall 
authorize  any  further  sum,  in  addition  to  the 
sum  mentioned  in  the  said  report,  to  be  as- 
sessed upon  said  owner  or  owners,  except 
their  due  proportion  of  the  expenses  of  re- 
moving any  buildings  and  improvements 
upon  the  said  streets,  roads,  or  public  square1-, 
and  the  costs  and  expenses  incurred  by  the 
said  Mayor,  Aldermen,  and  Commonalty, 
in  prosecuting  any  suit  or  suits  for  the  pur- 
poses aforesaid. 


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XII.  And  be  it  further  enacted,  That  each 
of  the  said  Commissioners  shall  be  entitled  to 
receive  the  sum  of  not  more  than  four  dol- 
lars, (besides  all  reasonable  expenses  for  maps, 
field  notes,  monuments,  chain  bearers,  and 
assistants)  for  each  day  they  shall  respectively 
be  actually  employed  in  the  duties  hereby 
assigned  to  them,  the  same  to  be  paid  by  the 
Mayor,  Aldermen,  and  Commonalty  of  the 
City  of  New- York,  and  assessed  as  aforesaid; 
and  that  the  powers  of  the  said  Commissioners 
shall  cease  when  they  shall  have  completed 
the  maps  aforesaid,  with  the  field  books  and 
remarks  aforesaid,  and  delivered,  attested  to, 
and  filed  the  same  respectively  as  aforesaid; 
and  that  in  case  of  the  death  of  one  of  the 
said  Commissioners,  the  survivors  shall  have 
power  to  proceed  in  the  execution  of  this 
act,  until  a  successor  of  the  deceased  shall 
be  appointed. 

XIII.  And  be  it  further  enacted,  That  this 
act  shall  be  considered,  adjudged,  and  taken 
to  be  a  public  act,  and  be  liberally  expound- 
ed and  construed  to  advance  the  ends  there- 
of. 


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XIV.  And  be  it  further  enacted,  That  if 
any  person  shall  be  sued  for  any  tiling  done 
in  pursuance  of  this  act,  it  shall  be  lawful 
for  such  person  to  plead  the  general  issue, 
and  to  give  this  act  and  the  special  matter  of 
defence  in  evidence  under  such  plea. 

XV.  And  whereas  for  the  purpose  of  duly 
regulating  and  constructing  slips  and  basons, 
and  for  running  out  wharves  and  piers,  it  is 
essential  that  the  right  to  the  land  under  wa- 
ter, below  low-water  mark,  should  be  vested 
in  the  Corporation  of  the  City  of  New- York; 
Be  it  there/ore  further  enacted,  That  it  shall 
and  may  be  lawful  for  the  Commissioners  of 
the  Land-office,  and  they  are  hereby  directed 
to  issue  letters  patent,  granting  to  the  Mayor, 
Aldermen,  and  Commonalty  of  the  City  of 
New- York,  and  their  successors  for  ever,  all 
the  right  and  title  of  the  people  of  this  State, 
to  the  lands  covered  with  water,  along  the 
easeily  shore  of  the  North  or  Hudson's 
River,  contiguous  to,  and  adjoining  the  lands 
of  the  said  Mayor,  Aldermen,  and  Common- 
alty, within  the  said  City  of  New-York, 
at,  and  from  low-water  mark,  and  running 
four  hundred  tret  into  the  said  river,  from 

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Bestaver's  killetje  or  river,  to  the  distance  of 
four  miles  to  the  north,  ^long  the  easterly 
shore  of  the  said  North  or  Hudson's  River; 
and  also  all  the  land  covered  with  water, 
along  the  westerly  shore  of  the  East  River  or 
Sound,  contiguous  to,  and  adjoining  the  lands 
of  the  said  Mayor,  Aldermen,  and  Common- 
alty, at  and  from  low-water  mark,  and  ex- 
tending four  hundred  feet  into  the  said  river 
or  sound,  from  the  north  side  of  Corlear's 
Hook,  at  the  northerly  boundary  of  the  lands 
covered  with  water,  whereof  the  said  Mayor, 
Aldermen,  and  Commonalty  are  now  seized, 
to  the  distance  of  two  miles  to  the  north, 
along  the  westerly  shore  of  the  said  East  River 
or  Sound:  Provided  always,  That  the  pro- 
prietor or  proprietors  of  the  lands  adjacent, 
shall  have  the  pre-emptive  right  in  all  grants 
made  by  the  Corporation  of  the  said  City, 
of  any  lands  under  water,  granted  to  the 
said  Corporation  by  this  act. 


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Extract  from  "  An  Act  respecting  Streets  in  the 
City  of  New-York."    Passed  March  24,  1809. 

u  And  whereas  difficulties  have  arisen  in 
the  execution  of  the  Act,  entitled  ■  An  Act 
relative  to  Improvements,  touching  the  lay- 
ing out  of  Streets  and  Roads  in  the  City  of 
New- York,  and  for  other  purposes,'  passed 
the  third  day  of  April,  1807:  For  the  re- 
medy of  which, 

w  XVII.  Be  it  further  enacted,  That  it 
shall  be  lawful  for  the  Commissioners  ap- 
pointed by,  or  by  virtue  of  the  act  last  men- 
tioned, and  for  all  persons  acting  under  their 
authority,  to  enter  upon  any  lands  or  tene- 
ments, on  which  it  may  be  necessary  to  make 
surveys  for  the  purpose  of  said  act;  and,  in 
cases  where  surveys  or  other  necessary  acts 
cannot  be  well  and  sufficiently  made  and 
executed,  without  cutting  trees  or  doing 
other  damages,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the 
said  Commissioners,  or  other  persons  em- 
ployed by  them,  to  give  reasonable  notice 
thereof  to  the  owner  or  occupant  of  the  land 
on  which  it  may  be  necessary  to  do  such 
damage;  to  the  end,  that  fcuch  owner  or  or 


(  ) 


cupant  may  view  the  place  and  the  damage 
necessary  to  be  done  with  the  said  Commis- 
sioners, or  any  one  of  them,  or  any  sur- 
veyor by  them  employed;  and  in  such  case 
no  action  shall  be  brought  for  any  such 
damage,  till  thirty  days  after  such  owner  or 
occupant  shall  have  presented  to  the  Com- 
mon Council  of  said  City,  a  bill  or  statement 
of  the  particulars  of  such  damage,  with  the 
amount  or  sum  of  money  demanded  therefor; 
and  if  within  such  period  of  thirty  days,  the 
said  Mayor,  Aldermen,  and  Commonalty, 
or  either  of  the  said  Commissioners,  or  the 
person  who  shall  have  done  such  damage 
shall  tender  to  such  owner  or  occupant,  de- 
manding such  damages,  a  reasonable  com- 
pensation therefor,  the  same  shall  be  a  bar  to 
any  action  to  be  brought  therefor;  and  in 
case  that  no  more  damages  than  the  sum  so 
tendered  shall  be  recovered  in  any  action 
to  be  brought  for  such  damages,  a  verdict 
shall  pass  for  the  defendant  therein. 

"  And  whereas,  by  the  second  section  of 
the  Act,  entitled  *  An  Act  for  regulating  the 
Buildings,  Streets,  Wharves,  and  Slips  in 
the  City  of  Nevy-York/  passed  the  third  day 


(  »1  ) 


of  April,  1801,  the  Mayor,  Aldermen,  and 
Commonalty  of  the  City  of  New- York,  in 
Common  Council  convened,  are  authorized, 
among  other  things,  in  certain  cases  therein 
mentioned,  when  they  shall  require  the 
ground  of  any  persons  for  streets,  to  cause 
the  damages  for  taking  the  same  to  be  as- 
sessed in  the  manner  therein  mentioned: 
And  whereas  it  is  therein  further  provided, 
that  the  verdict  of  the  jury  therein  men- 
tioned, and  the  judgment  of  the  Mayor's 
Court  thereon,  and  the  payment  of  the  sum 
or  sums  awarded  as  therein  mentioned,  to 
the  owner  or  owners  of  such  ground,  or 
tender  and  refusal  thereof,  shall  be  conclu- 
sive and  binding  against  the  said  owner  or 
owners,  his  and  their  respective  heirs,  execu- 
tors, administrators,  and  assigns,  claiming 
any  estate,  or  interest  of,  in  or  to  the  same 
ground :  And  whereas  in  some  cases  the 
sums  so  to  be  paid  or  tendered,  are  very 
great,  and  the  payment  thereof  in  a  great 
measure  useless,  by  reason,  that  in  many 
cases  the  same  sums,  or  great  part  thereof, 
are  to  be  assessed  again  upon  the  persons  to 
whom  such  payment  or  tender  may  have 
been  made:  For  remedy  whereof, 


(  *i  ) 

"  XVIII.  Be  it  further  enacted,  That  it 
shall  not  be  necessary,  in  any  case,  to  make 
payment  or  tender  of  the  sum  or  sums  so 
awarded,  in  order  to  bar  the  right  or  inter- 
est of  any  person  in  such  lands  or  ground, 
in  less  than  three  calendar  months  from  the 
respective  times,  when  the  judgment  of  the 
said  Mayors  Court  shall  be  rendered  on  the 
verdicts  of  the  juries  to  be  summoned  as 
aforesaid;  and  in  all  cases  in  which  ground 
or  land,  or  the  occupants  thereof,  shall  be 
assessed  as  benefited,  as  well  where  the  afore- 
said Commissioners,  by  virtue  of  this  act, 
shall  make  assessment,  as  where  the  said 
Mayor,  Aldermen,  and  Commonalty,  shall, 
according  to  law,  make  and  confirm  such 
assessment  within  the  said  period  of  three 
calendar  months,  it  shall  and  may  be  lawful 
for  the  said  Mayor,  Aldermen,  and  Com- 
monalty, to  deduct  the  respective  sums  so 
assessed  from  the  sums  due  for  damages  and 
recompense  to  the  said  owners  respectively; 
and  the  payment,  or  tender  and  refusal  of 
the  respective  balances,  shall  be  as  good  and 
effectual,  as  the  payment,  or  tender  and  re- 
fusal of  the  respective  sums  assessed  for 
damage  and  recompense. " 


COMMISSIONERS'  REMARKS. 


The  Commissioners  appointed  in  and  by 
the  Act,  according  to  the  form  and  effect 
thereof,  remark  on  their  maps,  as  filed,  viz. 
one  in  the  office  of  the  Secretary  of  State, 
one  in  the  office  of  the  Clerk  of  the  City 
and  County  of  New- York,  and  the  other 
belonging  to  the  Mayor,  Aldermen,  and 
Commonalty  of  the  City  of  New-York, — 

That  as  soon  as  they  could  meet,  and  take 
the  oath  prescribed,  they  entered  on  the 
duties  of  their  office,  and  employed  persons 
to  make  surveys  of  Manhattan  Island,  which 
they  personally  reconnoitered,  so  as  to  ac- 
quire the  general  information  needful  to  the 
correct  prosecution  of  their  work,  which 
has  been  much  delayed  by  the  difficulty  of 
procuring  competent  persons,  on  those  eco- 
nomical terms  which  they  prescribed  to 
themselves,  and  by  seasons  peculiarly  unfa- 
vourable. 


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That  one  of  the  first  objects  which  claimed 
their  attention,  was  the  form  and  manner  in 
which  the  business  should  be  conducted; 
that  is  to  say,  whether  they  should  confine 
themselves  to  rectilinear  and  rectangular 
streets,  or  whether  they  should  adopt  some 
of  those  supposed  improvements,  by  circles, 
ovals,  and  stars,  which  certainly  embellish 
a  plan,  whatever  may  be  their  effects  as  to 
convenience  and  utility.  In  considering 
that  subject,  they  could  not  but  bear  in  mind 
that  a  city  is  to  be  composed  principally  of 
the  habitations  of  men,  and  that  strait  sided, 
and  right  angled  houses  are  the  most  cheap 
to  build,  and  the  most  convenient  to  live  in. 
The  effect  of  these  plain  and  simple  reflec- 
tions was  decisive. 

Having  determined  therefore,  that  the 
work  should  in  general  be  rectangular,  a  se- 
cond, and,  in  their  opinion,  an  important 
consideration,  was  so  to  amalgamate  it  with 
the  plans  already  adopted  by  individuals  as 
not  to  make  any  important  change  in  their 
dispositions.  This,  if  it  could  have  been 
effected,  consistently  with  the  public  interest, 
was  desirable,  not  only  as  it  might  render  the 
work  more  generally  acceptable,  but  also  a* 


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st  might  be  the  means  of  avoiding  the  ex- 
pense. It  was  therefore  a  favourite  object 
with  the  Commissioners,  and  pursued  until 
after  various  unfruitful  attempts  had  proved 
the  extreme  difficulty;  nor  was  it  abandoned 
at  last  but  from  necessity*  To  show  the  ob- 
stacles which  frustrated  every  effort,  can  be 
of  no  use.  It  will,  perhaps,  be  more  satisfac- 
tory to  each  person  who  may  feel  aggrieved, 
to  ask  himself,  whether  his  sensations  would 
not  have  been  still  more  unpleasant,  had  his 
favourite  plans  been  sacrificed  to  preserve 
those  of  a  more  fortunate  neighbour? 

If  it  should  be  asked,  why  was  the  present 
plan  adopted  in  preference  to  any  other?  the 
answer  is,  because,  after  taking  all  circum- 
stances into  consideration,  it  appeared  to  be 
the  best;  or,  in  other  and  more  proper  terms, 
attended  with  the  least  inconvenience. 

It  may,  to  many,  be  matter  of  surprise, 
that  so  few  vacant  spaces  have  been  left,  and 
those  so  small,  for  the  benefit  of  fresh  air, 
and  consequent  preservation  of  health.  Cer- 
tainly, if  the  City  of  New- York  were  des- 
tined to  stand  on  the  side  of  a  small  stream, 
such  as  the  Seine  or  the  Thames,  a  great 
number  of  ample  places  might  be  needful; 

4 


(    26  ) 

but  those  large  arms  of  the  sea  which  em- 
brace Manhattan  Island,  render  its  situation, 
in  regard  to  health  and  pleasure,  as  well  as 
to  convenience  of  commerce,  peculiarly  feli- 
citous; when,  therefore,  from  the  same  causes, 
the  price  of  land  is  so  uncommonly  great, 
it  seemed  proper  to  admit  the  principles  of 
economy  to  greater  influence  than  might, 
under  circumstances  of  a  different  kind, 
have  consisted  with  the  dictates  of  prudence 
and  the  sense  of  duty. 

It  appeared  proper,  nevertheless,  to  select 
and  set  apart,  on  an  elevated  position,  a 
space  sufficient  for  a  large  Reservoir,  when 
it  shall  be  found  needful  to  furnish  the  City, 
by  means  of  aqueducts,  or  by  the  aid  of 
hydraulic  machinery,  with  a  copious  supply 
of  pure  and  wholesome  water.  In  the  mean- 
time, and  indeed  afterwards,  the  same  place 
may  be  consecrated  to  the  purposes  of  science, 
when  public  spirit  shall  dictate  the  building 
of  an  Observatory. 

It  did  not  appear  proper,  only  it  was  felt 
to  be  indispensable,  that  a  much  larger  space 
should  be  set  apart  for  Military  Exercise,  as 
also  to  assemble,  in  case  of  need,  the  force 
destined  to  defend  the  City.    The  question? 


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therefore,  was  not,  and  could  not  be,  whether 
there  should  be  a  Grand  Parade,  but  where 
it  should  be  placed,  and  what  should  be  its 
size.  And  here  again  it  is  to  be  lamented, 
that  in  this  late  day  the  Parade  could  not  be 
brought  further  south,  and  made  larger  than 
it  is,  without  incurring  a  frightful  expense. 

The  spot  nearest  to  that  part  of  the  City 
already  built,  which  could  be  selected  with 
any  regard  to  economy,  is  at  the  foot  of  those 
heights  called  Inklangberk,  in  the  vicinity 
of  Kip's  Bay.  That  it  is  too  remote  and  too 
small,  shall  not  be  denied;  but  it  is  presumed, 
that  those  who  may  be  inclined  to  criticism 
on  that  score,  may  feel  somewhat  mollified, 
when  the  Collector  shall  call  for  their  pro- 
portion of  the  large  and  immediate  tax 
which  even  this  small  and  remote  Parade 
will  require. 

Another  large  space,  almost  as  necessary 
as  the  last,  is  that,  which  in  no  distant  pe- 
riod will  be  required  for  a  Public  Market. 
The  City  of  New- York  contains  a  population 
already  sufficient  to  place  it  in  the  rank  of 
cities  of  the  second  order,  and  is  rapidly  ad- 
vancing towards  a  level  with  the  first.  It  is 
perhaps  no  unreasonable  conjecture,  that  in 


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half  a  century  it  will  be  closely  built  up  to 
the  northern  boundary  of  the  Parade,  and 
contain   400,000  souls.     The  controlling 
power  of  necessity  will  long  before  that 
period  have  taught  its  inhabitants  the  ad- 
vantage of  deriving  their  supplies  of  butcher's 
meat,  poultry,  fish,  game,  vegetables,  and 
fruit,  from  shops  in  their  neighbourhood. 
The  dealers  in  those  articles  will  also  find  it 
convenient,  and  so  will  those  from  whom 
they  purchase,  to  meet  at  one  general  mart. 
This  has  a  tendency  to  fix  and  equalize  prices 
over  the  whole  City.    The  carcass  butcher, 
gardener,  farmer,  &c.  will  be  able  to  calcu- 
late, with  tolerable  accuracy,  on  the  rate  at 
which  the  supplies  he  furnishes  can  be 
vended,  and  the  reasonable  profit  of  the  re- 
tailer being  added,  will  give  a  price  for  the 
consumer;  varying  rather  by  the  quality  of 
the  article  than  by  any  other  circumstance. 
It  is  no  trifling  consideration,  that  by  this 
mode  of  supplying  the  wants  of  large  cities, 
there  is  a  great  saving  of  time,  and  of  the  arti- 
cles consumed.    To  a  person  engaged  in 
profitable  business,  one  hour  spent  in  market 
is  frequently  worth  more  than  the  whole  of 
what  he  purchase?,  and  he  is  sometimes 


(  an  ) 


obliged  to  purchase  a  larger  quantity  than  he 
has  occasion  to  use,  so  that  the  surplus  is 
wasted.  Moreover,  the  time  spent  by  those 
who  bring  articles  of  small  value  from  the 
country,  in  retailing  them  out,  bears  such 
great  proportion  to  the  articles  themselves,  as 
to  increase  the  price  beyond  what  it  ought  to 
be.  In  short,  experience  having  demon- 
strated to  every  great  aggregation  of  man- 
kind the  expediency  of  such  arrangement, 
it  is  reasonable  to  conclude  that  it  will  be 
adopted  hereafter,  and  therefore  it  is  proper 
to  provide  for  it  now.  Neither  is  it  wholly 
unworthy  of  consideration,  that  the  establish- 
ment of  a  general  mart  will  leave  open  the 
spaces  now  appropriated  to  that  object,  in 
parts  of  the  City,  more  closely  built  than  is 
perfectly  consistent  with  cleanliness  and 
health.  The  place  selected  for  this  purpose, 
is  a  salt  marsh,  and  from  that  circumstance, 
of  inferior  price,  though  in  regard  to  its  des- 
tination, of  greater  value  than  other  soil. 
The  matter  dug  from  a  large  canal  through 
the  middle,  for  the  admission  of  market- 
boats,  will  give  a  due  elevation  and  solidity 
to  the  sides,  and  in  a  space  of  more  than 
.^000  feet  long,  and  upwards  of  800  wide. 


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there  will,  it  is  presumed,  after  deducting 
what  is  needful  for  the  Canal  and  Markets, 
be  sufficient  room  for  carts  and  waggons, 
without  incommoding  those  whose  business 
or  curiosity  may  induce  them  to  attend  it. 

To  some  it  may  be  matter  of  surprise,  that 
the  whole  Island  has  not  been  laid  out  as  a 
City;  to  others,  it  may  be  a  subject  of  merri- 
ment, that  the  Commissioners  have  provided 
space  for  a  greater  population  than  is  collected 
at  any  spot  on  this  side  of  China.  They  have 
in  this  respect  been  governed  by  the  shape  of 
the  ground.  It  is  not  improbable  that  consi- 
derable numbers  may  be  collected  at  Haer- 
lem,  before  the  high  hills  to  the  southward 
of  it  shall  be  built  upon  as  a  City;  and  it  is 
improbable,  that  (for  centuries  to  come)  the 
grounds  north  of  Haerlem  Flat  will  be 
covered  with  houses.  To  have  come  short 
of  the  extent  laid  out,  might  therefore  have 
defeated  just  expectation,  and  to  have  gone 
further,  might  have  furnished  materials  to 
the  pernicious  spirit  of  speculation. 

For  the  better  understanding  of  the  Map, 
it  will  be  proper  to  recollect,  in  examining 
it,  that  the  term  Avenue  is  applied  to  all 
those  streets  which  run  in  a  northerly  direc- 


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non,  parallel  to  each  other:  these  are  100 
feet  wide,  and  such  of  them  as  can  be  ex- 
tended as  far  north  as  the  village  of  Haerlem 
are  numbered,  (beginning  with  the  most 
eastern,   which   passes   from  the  west  of 
Bellevue  Hospital  to  the  east  of  Haerlem 
Church)  1,  2,  3,  4,  5,  6,  7,  8,  9,  10,  11, 
and  12.    This  last  runs  from  the  wharf  at 
Manhattan  Ville  nearly  along  the  shore  of 
Hudson's  River,  in  which  it  is  finally  lost,  as 
appears  by  the  Map.    The  Avenues  to  the 
eastward  of  No.  1  are  marked  A,  B,  C, 
and  D.    The  space  between  1st  and  2d  is 
650  feet,  from  2d  to  3d  Avenue  is  610  feet; 
the  spaces  from  3d  to  4th,  4th  to  5th,  (which 
is  Manhattan  Avenue  or  Middle  Road)  and 
from  the  5th  to  6th  Avenue,  are  each  920 
feet.    The  spaces  west  of  No.  6  are  each  of 
them  800  feet.    The  westerly  side  of  the 
Avenue  A  begins  at  the  intersection  of  the 
northerly  side  of  North-Street,  by  the  west- 
erly side  of  Essex-Street.  The  westerly  side  ot 
the  Avenue  B  begins  on  the  northerly  side  ot 
North-Street,  by  the  westerly  side  of  Arundle 
Street.    The  westerly  side  of  the  Avenue  C 
begins  at  the  intersection  of  the  northerK 
side  of  North-Street,  by  the  west  side  of  Pin 


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Street;  and  the  westerly  side  of  the  Avenue 
D  begins  at  the  intersection  at  the  northerly 
side  of  North-Street,  by  the  westerly  side  of 
Columbia-Street  Those  passages  which  run 
at  right  angles  to  the  Avenues,  are  termed 
Streets,  and  are  numbered  consecutively  from 
1  to  155.  The  northerly  side  of  No.  I 
begins  at  the  southern  end  of  the  Avenue  B, 
and  terminates  on  the  Bowery-Lane;  No. 
155  runs  from  Bussing's  Point  to  Hudson's 
River,  and  is  the  most  northern  of  those 
which  it  was  thought  at  all  needful  to  lay 
out  as  part  of  the  City  of  New- York,  ex- 
cepting the  10th  Avenue,  which  is  continued 
to  Haerlem  River,  and  strikes  it  near  King's 
Bridge.  These  streets  are  all  60  feet  wide, 
except  fifteen,  which  are  100  feet  wide,  viz. 
No.  14,  23,  34,  42,  57,  72,  19,  S6,  96, 
106,  116,  125,  135,  145,  and  155;  the 
blocks  or  spaces  between  them  being  in 
general  about  200  feet. 

The  southern  side  of  Third-Street  touches 
the  north-east  corner  of  the  house  occupied 
by  Mangle  Minthorne,  opposite  the  southerly 
side  of  Great  Jones-Street;  and  the  blocks 
between  First  and  Third  Streets  are  of  equal 
width.    The  northern  side  of  Fifth-Street 


(  as  ) 


touches  the  southerly  side  of  Monument  No. 
5  :  and  the  blocks  between  Third  and  Filth 
Streets  are  of  equal  breadth.  The  northerly 
side  of  Sixth-Street  touches  the  southerly  side 
of  Monument  No.  6.  The  northerly  side  of 
Seventh-Street  touches  the  southerly  side  of 
Monument  No.  7;  and  none  of  the  streets 
from  the  First  to  Seventh  inclusive,  extend  be- 
yond the  Bowery,  near  the  eastern  side  of 
which  the  Monuments  5,  6,  and  7  are 
placed.  The  northerly  side  of  Eighth- 
Street  touches  the  south-western  corner  of  a 
house  built  on  the  northerly  side  of  Stuy- 
vesant-Street,  heretofore  so  called,  and  east- 
erly side  of  the  Bowery,  The  northerly 
side  of  Ninth-Street  touches  the  southerly 
side  of  Monument  No.  9.  The  northerly 
side  of  Tenth-Street  touches  the  southerly 
side  of  Monument  No.  10;  and  after  crossing 
the  6th  Avenue,  becomes  the  southerly  side 
of  the  same  Tenth-Street.  The  northerly 
side  of  Eleventh-Street  touches  the  northerly 
side  of  Monument  No.  IT.  The  three  last 
mentioned  Monuments  are  placed  near  the 
easterly  side  of  the  Bowery  Road  ;  and  the 
Eighth,  Ninth,  Tenth,  and  Eleventh  Streets 
extend  westward  ly  to  Greenwich-Lane.  The 

5 


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southerly  side  of  Sixteenth-Street  touches 
the  northerly  side  of  Monument  No.  \6, 
placed  near  the  western  side  of  the  Bloom- 
ingdale  Road.  The  blocks  between  the 
Eleventh  and  Sixteenth  Streets  are  of  equal 
breadth :  and  the  Twelfth  and  Thirteenth 
Streets  extend  westward  to  Hudson's  River, 
being  interrupted,  nevertheless,,  by  a  north- 
easterly angle  of  Greenwich-Lane.  All  the 
Streets  except  First  an-d  Second  Streets,  (which 
run  into  North-Street)  extend  eastwardly  to 
the  Sound,  or  East  River;  and  all  the  Streets 
from  Thirteenth-Street  northward,  extend 
from  River  to  River,  saving  where  they  are 
interrupted  by  public  places  or  squares. 
The  southern  side  of  Twenty-first-Street 
touches  the  northern  side  of  Monument 
No.  21,  placed  near  the  western  side  of  the 
Bloomingdale  Road;  and  the  blocks  between 
Sixteenth  and  Twenty-first  Streets  are  of  the 
same  width.  The  northern  side  of  Forty- 
second-Street  touches  the  southern  side  of 
Monument  No.  1  and  42,  placed  four-tenths 
of  a  foot  eastward  of  the  westerly  side  of  the 
1st  Avenue;  and  the  blocks  between  the 
Twenty-first  and  Forty-second  Streets  are  of 
equal  width.     The  northern  side  of  the 


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Seventy-first-Street  touches  the  southern  side 
of  Monument  No.  5  and  71,  whose  westerly- 
side  is  placed  on  the  easterly  side  of  the  5th 
Avenue;  and  the  blocks  between  the  Forty- 
second  and  Seventy-first  Streets  are  of  the 
same  width.    The  northerly  side  of  Eighty- 
sixth-Street  touches  the  northerly  side  of 
Monument  No.  5  and  86",  whose  westerly 
side  is  placed  on  the  easterly  side  of  the  5th 
Avenue;  and  the  blocks  between  the  Seventy- 
first  and  Eighty-sixth  Streets  are  of  the  same 
width.    The  northerly  side  of  Ninety-sixth- 
Street  touches  the  southerly  side  of  Monu- 
ment No.  5  and  96,  whose  westerly  side  is 
placed  on  the  easterly  side  of  the  5th  Ave- 
nue; and  the  blocks  between  the  Eighty- 
sixth  and  Ninety-sixth  Streets  are  of  the 
same  width.    The  northerly  side  of  One 
hundred  and  twenty-fifth-Street  touches  the 
southerly  side  of  Monument  marked  1  and 
M,  whose  easterly  side  is  four-tenths  of  a 
foot  eastward  of  the  western  side  of  the  1st 
Avenue;  and  the  blocks  between  the  Ninety- 
^ixth  and  One  hundred  and  twenty-fifth 
Streets  are  of  the  same  width.   The  southerly 
side  of  One  hundred  and  fiftv-third-Strcct 
touches  the  southern  side  of  the  tenth  mile- 


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stone,  on  the  King's  Bridge  Road,  at  the  sur- 
face of  the  earth ;  and  all  the  blocks 
northward  of  the  One  hundred  and  twenty- 
fifth-Street  are  of  the  same  width.  All  the 
Avenues  extend  southward  to  the  boundary 
marked  out  by  the  statute,  except  the  4th, 
which  stops  at  the  Fifteenth-Street,  being 
there  lost  in  Union-Place.  This  Place  is  an 
irregular  trapezium,  bounded  (as  appears  on 
the  Map)  westwardly  by  the  Bloomingdale 
Road,  southwardly  by  Tenth-Street,  easterly 
and  northerly  by  the  Bowery  Road,  the 
Broadway  (which  is  continued  out  to  the 
Parade),  Fifteenth-Street,  the  4th  Avenue, 
and  Sixteenth-Street.  This  Place  becomes 
necessary  from  various  considerations;  its 
central  position  requires  an  opening  for  the 
benefit  of  fresh  air;  the  union  of  so  many 
large  roads  demands  space  for  security  and 
convenience,  and  the  morsels  into  which  it 
would  be  cut  by  continuing  across  it  the 
several  Streets  and  Avenues,  would  be  of 
little  use  or  value.  There  are  sundry  small 
places  equally  the  children  of  necessity,  viz. 
one  bounded  northerly  by  Second-Street, 
southerly  by  North-Street,  and  westerly  by 
the  Avenue  C;  another  bounded  north  by 


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First-Street,  southerly  by  North-Street,  and 
westerly  by  the  1st  Avenue;  and  a  third 
being  the  space  south  of  Seventh-Street,  and 
west  of  the  3d  Avenue. 

The  Market  Place  already  mentioned,  is 
bounded  northerly  by  Tenth-Street,  southerly 
by  Seventh-Street,  easterly  by  the  East  River, 
and  westerly  by  the  1st  Avenue. 

The  Parade  is  bounded  northerly  by  Thirty- 
second-Street  and  Thirty-fourth-Street,  south- 
wardly by  Twenty-third-Street,  eastward ly 
by  the  3d  Avenue,  from  Twenty-third  to 
Thirty-second  Streets,  and  by  the  Eastern 
Post  Road  from  the  Thirty-second  to  Thirty- 
fourth  Streets,  westwardly  by  the  7th  Avenue; 
being  in  its  greatest  length  from  east  to  west 
little  more  than  1350  yards,  and  in  its 
breadth  from  north  to  south  not  quite  1000. 

Blooming  dale  Square  is  bounded  north- 
wardly by  Fifty-seventh-Street,  southwardly 
by  Fifty-third-Street,  eastwardly  by  the  8th, 
and  westwardly  by  the  9th  Avenue. 

Manhattan  Square  is  bounded  north- 
wardly by  Eighty-first-Street,  southwardly 
by  Sevcnty-sevonth-Street,  eastwardly  by  the 
8th,  and  westward  ly  by  the  9th  Avenue. 


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Observatory  Place,  or  Square  for  Reservoir, 
is  bounded  northwardly  by  Ninety-fourth- 
Street,  southwardly  by  Eighty-ninth-Street, 
eastwardly  by  the  4th,  and  westwardly  by 
the  5th  Avenue. 

Haeriem  Marsh  is  bounded  northwardly 
by  the  One  hundred  and  ninth-Street,  south- 
wardly by  the  One  hundred  and  sixth-Street, 
eastwardly  by  the  Sound,  and  westwardly 
by  the  5th  Avenue. 

Finally;  Haeriem  Square  is  bounded  north- 
wardly by  the  One  hundred  and  twenty- 
first-Street,  southwardly  by  the  One  hun- 
dred and  seventeenth-Street,  eastwardly  by 
the  6th,  and  westwardly  by  the  7th  Avenue. 

The  position  of  all  the  Monuments  will  be 
seen  on  the  Map;  and  also  the  several  eleva- 
tions taken  above  high -water  mark. 

In  witness  whereof,  the  said  Commis- 
sioners have  hereunto  set  their  hands  and. 
seals  the  22d  day  of  March,  1811. 


REFERENCES 


TO  THE 

PUBLIC  BUILDINGS,  CHURCHES,  CHAPELS, 
PLACES  OF  AMUSEMENT,  PRINCIPAL 
MANUFACTORIES,  &c. 


1  GOVERNMENT  House,  at  the  Battery; 
occupied  as  the  Custom-House,  Academy 
of  Arts,  &c. 

2  Post-Office,  corner  of  William  and  Garden 
streets.  p 

3  Trinity  Church,  Broadway. 

4  Grace       do.  do. 

5  St.  Paul's  do.  do. 

6  St.  George's  Chapel,  Beckman-street. 

7  Christ  Church,  Ann-street. 

8  St.  John's  do.  Hudson-square. 

9  St.  Stephen's  do.  corner  of  Broome  and 
First  streets. 

10  St.  Mark's  do.  Tenth-street. 

11  Zion  do.  Mott-street. 

12  French  Episcopal  do,  Pine-street. 


(  ) 


13  South  Reformed  Dutch  Church,  Garden* 
street. 

14  New  Dutch  do.  Liberty-street. 

15  North  do.  do.  William-street. 

16  North-west  do.  do.  Sugar-loaf-street. 

17  do.  George-street,  Greenwich. 

18  German  Calvinist  Reformed  do.  Nassau- 
street. 

19  German  Lutheran  do.  Frankfort-street. 

20  Presbyterian  do.  Wall-street. 

21  do.         do.  Beekman-street. 

22  do.         do.  Elizabeth-street. 

23  do.         do.  Rutgers-street. 

24  do.         do.  Spring-street. 

25  Irish  do.       do.  Orange-street. 

26  Reformed  do.  do.  Chamber-street. 

27  Associate  do.  do.  Cedar-street. 

28  do.     do.  do.  Pearl-street. 

29  do.     do.  do.  Murray-street. 

30  Seceder's  do.  Nassau-street. 

31  do.      do.  Union  Road,  Greenwich. 

32  Baptist  do.  Gold-street. 

33  do.    do.  Fayette-streeh 

34  do.    do.  Rose-street. 

35  do.    do.  Mulberry-street, 

36  do.    do.  Broome-street. 

37  do.    do.  Vandam-street. 


(  41  ) 


38  Welsh  Baptist  Church,  Mott-street. 


39 

Ebenezer  do. 

do.  Broadway. 

Methodist  Church,  John-street. 

A  1 

do. 

do.  Duanostreet. 

42 

do. 

do.  Second-street. 

43 

do. 

do.  Fourth -street. 

44 

do. 

do.  Bedford-street. 

45 

Moravian  Church,  Fair-street. 

45 

Universalist 

do.  Pearl-street. 

47  St.  Peter's  Catholic  do.  Barclay-street. 

48  St.  Patrick's  do.     do.  Mott-street. 

49  Friend's  old  Meeting-house,  Liberty-street, 

50  do.  new  do.  Pearl-street. 

5 1  Jew's  Synagogue,  Mill-street. 

52  African  Baptist  Church,  Anthony-street, 

53  do.  Methodist  do.  Church-street. 

54  do.       do.      do.  Green-street 

55  City  Hall,  Wall-street. 

56  New  Court-house,  Park. 

57  Goal,  do. 

58  Bridewell,  '  do. 

59  Alms  House,  Chamber-street. 

60  New  do.  Bellevue. 

61  State  Prison,  Greenwich. 

62  Columbia  College,  Robinson-street. 

63  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons- 
Pearl-strect. 

ft 


(  M  j 


64"  City  Library  and  Literary  Exchange, 
Nassau-street. 

65  Free-School,  Lumber-street. 

66  do.  Chatham-street. 

67  do.  Henry-street. 

68  Hospital,  Broadway. 

69  Asylum  for  Maniacs,  Duane  and  Church 
streets. 

70  State  Arsenal,  Elm-street. 

71  United  States  do.  Bridge-street. 

72  Theatre,  Chatham-street. 

73  Washington  Hall,  Broadway. 

74  Mechanics'  do.  Robinson-street. 

75  St.  John's  do.  Frankfort-street. 

16  Great  Wigwam,  No.  I.  Chatham-street. 

77  City-Hotel,  Broadway. 

78  Tontine  Coffee  House,  Wall-street. 

79  Phoenix    do.      do.  do. 

80  Exchange  Market,  Broad-street. 

81  Fly  do.  near  Maiden-lane. 

82  Bear  do.  Greenwich  and  Vesey  streets, 

83  Duane  do.  Duane-street. 

84  Catharine  do.  Catharine-street. 
§5  New  do.  Spring-street. 

86  do.  do.  Grand-street. 

87  State  Botanic  Garden,  near  the  four  mile- 
stone on  the  5th  Avenue. 


(  ) 


St.  James's  Church,  Hamilton  Square. 

St.  Michael's  do.  Bloomingclale  Road. 

Dutch  Reformed  do.  do.  do. 

do.        do.       do.  Hacrlem. 

New- York  Chamber  of  Coanmercc,  Wall- 
street. 

United  States  Bank,  do. 
Bank  of  New- York,  do. 
Manhattan  Bank,  do. 
Merchants*  do.  do. 
Mechanics'  do.  do. 
Union  do.  do. 

United  Insurance  Company,  do. 
New-York  do.  do.        do.  * 

Mutual      do.  do.  do. 

Columbian  do.  do.  do. 

Marine       do.  do.  do. 

Commercial  do.  do.  do. 
Ocean        do.  do.  do. 

Washington  Mutual  do.  do.  John-street. 
Eagle  Fire  do.  do.  Wall-street. 

Phoenix  do,  do.  do. 

New- York  Firemen  do.  do.  do. 
London  Phoenix  do.  do.  do. 
United  States  Loan  Office,  No.  16  Robinson. 

and  No.  123  Barclay-street. 
Manhattan  Water  Works,  Reed-street. 


(  44  ) 


The  Sailor's  Snug  Harbour,  Broadway,  near 
Union  Place. 

Scudder's  American  Museum,  No.  L2l  Chat- 
ham-street. 

Smith's  New  Mechanical  Panorama,  No. 

190  William-street. 
Circus,  Anthony-street,  near  Broadway. 
John  J.  Holland's  Panorama,  Broadway. 
Vauxhall,  near  the  two  mile-stone,  in  the 

Bowery. 

Dyde's  Military  Hall,  upper  end  of  Broad- 
way. 

Tyler's  Washington  Garden,  Spring-street, 
near  Greenwich^street. 

Ensley's  Columbia  Garden,  No.  307  Broad- 
way. 

Parise's  New  Garden,  No.  265  do. 
Contoit's  New-York  Garden,  No.  355  do. 
Knox's  Ball-Alley,  Fourth-street,  near  Hester- 
street. 

M'Queen's  Columbian  Air  Furnace,  corner 

of  Duane  and  Cross  streets. 
Industry  do.  No.  390  Greenwich-street. 
Union  do.  Broadway,  near  Canal-street. 
Youle's  do.  Corlear'srhook. 
Sturtevant's  do.  Elm,  near  Duane-street. 
Ward's  Cupelo  do.  for  casting  brass  and  iron, 

corner  of  Hester  and  Third  streets. 


(    45  ) 


Egenton  and  M'Queen's  Burr  Mill  Stone 
Manufactory,  No.  18  Gross-stree  t. 

W.  Innes  &  Co.'s  Chemical  Laboratory,  cor- 
ner of  Walnut  and  Lombardy  streets. 

A.  J.  Hamilton's  Distillery,  No.  286  Water- 
street. 

Geib  and  Son,  Church  and  Chamber  Organ 
Builders,  and  Patent  Piano-Forte  Manu- 
facturers, No.  95  Leonard-street,  and  cor- 
ner of  Sugar-loaf  and  Church  streets. 

Wettemore's  Card  Manufactory,  George- 
street,  Greenwich. 

White  &  Co.'s  Type  Foundery,  do.  do. 

G.  Youle's  Patent  Cabouse  and  Stove  Manu- 
factory, No.  '296  Water,  and  35  Cherry 
streets. 

New- York  Slate  Company's  Yard,  West- 
street,  near  Chamber-street. 

New-York  Patent  Grate  Manufactory,  No. 
395  Broadway. 

Calico  Printing  do.  Sullivan,  near  Bleeckcr- 
street. 

C.  Crygicr's  Paper-hanging  do.  corner  of 

Broadway  and  Warren-street. 
Harmer's  Patent  Floor-Cloth  do.  Brooklyn, 

and  at  his  agent's  Mr.  II.  Andrews  No, 

78  Maidcn-laiv. 


(    *G  ) 


Cumberland's  Floor-Cloth  Manufactory,  cor- 
ner of  Rivington  and  Second  streets. 

P.  and  G.  Lorillard's  Tobacco  and  Snuff 
Manufactory,  No.  30  Chatham-street. 

Heiser's  Starch  do.  No.  511  Greenwich- 
street. 

Tucker's  Plaister  of  Paris  do.  No.  6  White- 
street. 

Remmey's  Stone- Ware  do.  No.  9  Cross-street. 

C.  Crolius'       do.      do.  No.  8  do. 

J.  A.  Crolius'  do.  do.  corner  of  Governeur 
and  Cherry  streets. 

Marshall's  Earthen  do.  No.  1 16  Hester-street. 

Brown's  Thread  do.  No.  300  Bowery. 

Stevenson's  do.   do.  No.  50  Spring-street. 

Pin  do.     do.  do. 

Edwards'  Scale-Beam  do.  Green,  near  Prince- 
street. 

Wheeler's  Turpentine  Distillery,  Orange- 
street. 

Van  Wagenen  and  Van  Hook's  do.  do.  Green, 

near  Prince-street. 
Cottrell  and  Martin's  do.  do.  near  Mount 

Pitt. 

West's  do.  do.  Greenwich-street. 
Whitfield's  Philadelphia  Stage-Office,  No.  1 
Courtlandt-street. 


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Swiftsure  Mail  do.  No.  4  Courtlandt-street. 
Puffer's  Mail  and  General  do.  No.  5  do. 
North  River  Steam  Boat  piers,  foot  of  Court- 

landt  and  Liberty  streets. 
Brunswick  Steam  Boat  pier,  Battery. 
Powles-Hook  Ferry  do.  Courtlandt-street. 
Hoboken,  do.  Vesey-street. 
Brooklyn  Ferries,  at  the  Fly  and  Catharine 

Markets. 
Elizabeth-Town  do.  Whitehall. 
Staten-Island      do.  do. 
Rhode-Island  Packets,  Crane-wharf. 
Manhattan  Bath,  No.  5  Chamber-street. 
New- York  do.  No.  17  do. 


LIST  OF  SUBSCRIBERS. 


His  Excellency  DANIEL  D.  TOMPKINS,  Governor 
of  the  State  of  New-York. 

The  Honourable  DE  WITT  CLINTON,  Lieutenant 
Governor  of  the  State  of  New-York. 


Anthon,  John 
Aymar,  Peter 
Astor,  John  Jacob 
Anderson,  Alexander 
Aylward,  Pierce 
Bryce,  Archibald 
Bailey,  Theodorus 
Bayard,  Stephen  N. 
Barker,  Joshua 
Barnes,  Robert 
Bell,  James  L. 
BrinckerhofF,  George 
Bogardus,  Robert 
Berrian,  William 
Boston,  Robert 


Bleeckcr,  Anthony 
Bon  sail,  Robert 
Boyce,  Abraham 
Brooks,  Henry 
Brown,  Burnell 
Burr,  Isaac 
Beth une,  Divic 
Buckley,  Thomas 
Board  man,  John 
Bre inner,  Andrew 
Bowrosan,  Anthony 
Blackwell,  James 
BogeH,  Cornelius 
Brown,  Noah 
Bleeckcr,  James  W- 


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Barclay,  Thomas 

Barry,  Rev.  E.  D. 

Bogert,  James 

Buchannan,  Thomas 

Brackett,  J.  Warren 

Barrow,  Thomas 

Bartow,  Basil  J. 

Blackwell  &  M'Farlane. 

Clinton,  Charles 

Campbell,  Duncan  P. 

Colden,  Cadwallader  D. 

Crosby,  James 

Child,'  Francis 

Caldwell,  J.  E.  &  J. 

Clark,  junr.  John 

Carithers,  George 

Cutting,  William 

Cottu,  Charles 
Coleman,  William 

Campbell,  Samuel 

Codman,  William 
Commercial  Insurance 

Company. 
Columbian  Insurance 

Company. 
Clason,  Isaac 
Cheesebrough,  Robert 
Cashman,  Michael 
Crane,  Timothy  B. 
Crane,  Benjamin 
Cooper,  Thomas  A. 
Coley,  William 
Cod  wise.  George 


50  ) 

Courtney,  Lord,  2  copies 

Conrad,  Solomon  W. 

Chrystie,  Thos.  &  Jas. 

Disbrow,  John 

Denning,  William 

Dingee,  Robert 

Dobs,  Peter 

Dickey,  Robert 

De  Grushe,  Robert 

Dunham,  David,  3  copies. 

Delaplane,  Joseph 

Davis,  William  A. 

De  Witt,  Peter 

Dixey,  John 

Desobry,  Benjamin 

Dydc,  Robert 

De  Laeroix,  lr.  Amelot 
De  Peyster,  Gerard 

Dunscomb,  Edward 
Emmett,  Thomas  A. 
Eastburn,  James 
Eagle  Fire  Insurance 

Company. 
Ensley,  Daniel 
Elliot,  William 
Ferris,  Benjamin 
Farquhar,  Charles  W. 
Franklin,  Matthew 
Fish,  Whitehead 
Fulton,  Robert 
Fenton,  Peter 
Freeman,  Uzal  W. 
Furman*  Gabriel 


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Foster  &  Giraud. 
Forbes,  Garrit 
Fox,  John 
Fay,  Joseph  D. 
Gelston,  Mall  by 
Graham,  John  A. 
Gracie,  Archibald 
Gautross,  Xavier 
Gardenier  &  Edwards. 
Garr,  Andrew  S. 
Gibson,  John  W. 
Greenwood,  Dr.  John 
Gosman,  George 
Gilpin,  J.  &  T. 
Gould,  Stephen 
Gieb  &  Son,  John 
Gaudain,  Lawrence 
Ilattrick,  Peter 
Haniersley,  Thomas 
Halsey,  Jacob 
Heiser,  Henry 
Henderson,  William 
I[offman,  Josiah  Ogden 
Hopkins,  William 
Hounsiield,  Ezra 
Herring,  Elbert 
Hone,  John 
Harvey,  Thomas 
Hopper,  junr.  John 
Hunter,  Robert 
Holland,  John  J. 
Hyslop,  John 
Herman.  Adrian 


Hatfield,  junr.  ft 
Hammond,  J. 
Hatfield,  Andn  w 
Hogan,  Michael 
Holmes,  William  B. 
Harsen,  Jacob 
Hammond,  Abijah 
Holt,  Charles 
Harrison,  William 
Irving  k  Smith. 
Janeway,  George 
Jaques,  Oliver 
Jay,  P.  Augustus 
Jauncy,  William 
Judah,  Benjamin  S. 
Jaques,  John  D. 
Jones,  David  S. 
Johnson,  James 
Jackson,  Amasa 
Jones,  Isaac 
Jones,  Edward  R. 
Jackson,  John 
King,  David 
King,  William 
King,  Rufns 
Kemp,  John 
Ludlow,  Care\ 
Livingston,  ftrockhol 
Law  renee,  William 
Ludlow,  William  C 
Lispcnnrd.  liconard 
Livingston,  John  R. 
Ludlow.  Gabriel  Y, 


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Lenox,  Robert 
Low,  John 
Lovett,  William 
Lang  &  Turner. 
Le  Roy,  Bayard  & 

M'Evers. 
Leavenworth,  E. 
Leonard,  John 
Ledyard,  Benjamin 
Le  Roy,  Jaeob 
Labagh,  Abraham 
Lawrence,  J.  M.  D. 
Little,  Michael 
London  Phcenix  Fire  In 

surance  Company. 
M'Kesson,  John 
M'Comb,  junr.  John 
M'Mennomy,  Robert 
M4  Viekar,  /  John 
Mulligan,  John  W. 
Munro,  Peter  Jay 
M'Intire,  Hugh 
Morris,  Thomas 
Mcyhcr,  John 
M4Lean,  John 
Murray,  John  R. 
Mason,  John 
Mechanics'  Bank. 
Murray,  John  B. 
M4Vickar,  Nathan 
M'Callem,  Dainei 
Moore,  Lewis 
Meigs,  Henry 


Mulligan,  William  C. 
Mason,  Rev.  John  M. 
Marcellin,  Anthony  V. 
M'Kay,  Patrick 
Mitchill,  Samuel  L. 
Maxwell,  Hugh 
M'Evers,  Charles 
Mutual  Insurance  Com- 
pany. 

Norton,  John  L.  2  copies 
Newby,  Robert  S. 
Nutter,  Valentine 
Ogden,  David  B. 
Ogden,  Thomas  L. 
Ogden,  Andrew 
Ogden,  William 
Odell,  Jacob 
Prime,  Nathaniel 
Pearsall,  Thomas  C. 
Pope,  Thomas 
Paulding,  junr.  William 
Price,  Stephen 
Payne,  John  H. 
Post,  Henry 
Pell,  A.  S. 
Pintard,  John 
Post,  Thomas 
Pell,  Jabesh 
Picket,  Albert 
Rom  ay  n,  Nicholas 
Rapelye,  George 
Rutgers,  Henry 
Rich,  Thomas  L. 


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Roorback,  Arthur  H. 
RadclifF,  Jacob 
Ray,  Cornelius 
Rogers,  Ben jam  in  W» 
Russell)  Abraham 
Bitter,  John  P. 
Robertson,  Robert 
Riker,  Richard 
Ross,  David  M. 
Rcmmcy.  Jolin 
Rhodes,  William 
Rollinson,  William 
Randell*  John 
Rook,  John 
Rogers,  John 
Roosevelt,  James  C. 
Roosevelt,  James 
Rhmelander,  Philip 
Robinson,  Beverly 
Strong,  Joseph 
Sherred,  Jacob 
Stoughton*  Thomas 
Smith,  Theophilus  \V. 
Smyth,  Charles 
Stagg,  Thomas 
Somai  indyck,  G.  W.  2eo. 
Sturtevaat,  Kliplmlct 
Strong,  Benjamin 
Stoutenburgh,  juor.  J. 
Stewart,  Charles 
Sharp,  R.  I. 
Siekels,  John  If. 

Strong,  Selah 


Saltus,  Francis 

SJidcll,  John 

Schcnck,  Peter  IT. 

Seaman,  J.  W.  &  Co. 

Schermcrhorn,  junr.  P. 

Stewart,  Alexander  L. 

Scott,  H. 

Stagg,  Peter 

Sands,  Joseph 

Suckley,  George 

Smith,  James  R. 

Stuyvesant,  Nicholas  W. 

Southwick,  Henry  C. 

Stuyvesant,  Peter  G. 

Swords,  Thomas 

Swords,  James 

Schcrmerhorn,  John  P. 
Talbot,  Theodore  F. 
Taylor,  Thomas 
Tucker,  Gideon 
Ten  Brook,  Henry 

Taylor,  Najah 
Thorp,  George  B. 
Townsend,  M.  k  B. 
Ten  Broeck,  Dirk 
Thomas,  Thomas  If. 
Tremain,  Joseph 
Trinder,  Charles 
Thorn,  R.  V.  W.  ^  J. 
Thomson,  John 
Tripler,  Thongs 
Thompson,  Samuel 
Tyler,  Henry 


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Tucker,  Peter  L. 
Underbill,  Stephen 
Union  Bank. 
Van  Zandt,  John 
Variek,  Richard 
Van  Tuyl,  John  Y. 
Verveelan,  Henry 
Verplank,  Daniel  C. 
Van  Hook,  Isaac  A, 
Van  Zandt,  Peter 
Van  Alen,  Cornelius  C. 
Van  Beuren,  Cortlandt 
"Ward,  Jasper 
Wyman,  John  W. 
West,  John  E. 
Wells,  John 
Wyckoff,  Henry  I. 
Weyman,  William 
Wright,  Grove 
Wood,  John 
Woodhull,  R.  M. 
Wilson,  Peter 
Weeks,  Ezra 
Woods,  William 
Willctt,  Marinus 


Wilkes,  Charles 
Wagstaff,  David 
Watkinson,  Henry 
Woods,  James 
Watkins,  Joseph 
Wilcox,  Daniel  B. 
Winter,  Joseph 
Waldron,  Benjamin 
Wilkins,  Martin  S. 
Walters,  Daniel  D. 
Wheeler,  Solomon 
Wilson,  John  Q. 
Wilson  &  Wilson. 
Winthrop,  Francis  B. 
Walton,  Gerard 
Wing,  William 
Ward,  John 
Ward,  Bartholomew 
Whittemore,  Samuel 
Waite,  George 
Waite,  Robert 
Wood,  Samuel 
Wendovcr,  Peter  H. 
Youle,  George 
Youle,  John 


